Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Everyone Doesn't Do It

Elections officials found no evidence that other political parties engaged in a scheme to circumvent spending limits as the Conservatives are accused of doing in the 2006 federal election, Canada's chief electoral officer said Tuesday.

But in his appearance before a Commons ethics committee Tuesday in Ottawa, Marc Mayrand told MPs he asked Elections Canada staff to review the returns of all major political parties in the 2004 and 2006 federal elections.

The review, he said, found no evidence of other parties directing money to local candidates who would then transfer the funds back to the party to spend on more advertising for the national campaign.

"Elections Canada has not identified any other transaction or group of transactions in which all of the other factors were in play," Mayrand said.

The only defence, Elections Canada part of another dasdardly plot to unfairly harm Conservatives. Good luck with that.

July isn't supposed to go like this for the government, it's normally the season of plenty. And the kicker, all this while they're doling money out left and right trying to win votes, but not west of course ;)